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THE   MOSELLA  OF 
DECIMUS  MAGNUS  AUSONIUS 

Thanslated  by  F.  S.  Flint  - 

rr.    •    „=  Mo<rn,is  Auwnius  wa^  born  at  Burdigala  (Bordeaux) 

.1  r'Zvear  309      He  ^s  educated  as  a  rhetori.ian;  prac- 

ti^     aw  .^  and    afterwards   became    a   professor   of   grammar 

ti..€d    law  ,    -'no  ^        ,        .      gniperor  Va  entinian  as  tutor  for 

t"     '^   rV.'tian    he  was^succes^^lboth  as  teacher  and  courtier, 
hi.   son  Cratian,  he  was  succe  yalentinian,  and,  after  the 

being  m^de  count  and  quaestor   by    V  ^  ^^  ^^^^^ 

latter'a  death    prefect  of   Afr.c^  and   UMy,  ^.^  ^^  ^^^ 

y  Gratiaii,  who,  in  tne  >ed.r  ^  C7,  Qratian   in 

?r'i:sorr;erd  "t^  Zdtu.^^hte,'h:^ng  immediately 
^;wt'rhTs  Tourt  Christianity  i?^^!^^^^^^^;^^  n1 
him    to    celebrate    Valent.nian     Valen.     the    coemp        , 

rfcn  «v''"fr^:^Ttourrnr(:rre'i&^^     pf* 

feme    -*  .,'«X"^,:  ,;^3„  at  a'tSre  when  fhe  seat  of 
rRoman   Em^p^^^-^^^at"  Trev^  on  the  M.elle,  .  h.  _m.st 

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THE  MOSELLA  OF  DECTMUS  MAGNUS  AUSONIUS 


THAD  crossed  the  dark  flood  of  the  swift  Nava 
(Xalie),  and  admired  the  new  walls  added  to 
ancient  Yincuni  (Biugen),  where,  long  ago, 
(jaul  suffered  a  defeat  equal  to  that  of  ihe  Romans 
at  Cannae,  and  where  the  troops  of  the  dead  lie  in 
the  fields  unwept  and  unhonoured.  Thence,  enter- 
ing a  lonely  path  through  a  deserted  wooded  coun- 
try, where  can  be  seen  no  trace  of  human  cultiva- 
tion, T  pass  by  arid  Dumnlssus,  with  thirsty  lands 
on  all  sides,  and  Tabernae  (Berncastel)  watered  by 
a  perpetual  founlain,  and  the  fields  once  laid  out  by 
Sarmatian  settlers.  At  length,  near  the  boundaries 
of  the  Belgae,  I  come  in  sight  of  Xoiomagum 
(Neumagen),  the  renowned  camp  of  divine  Con- 
stantinus.  In  these  plains  the  air  is  purer,  and 
Phoebus,  now  cloudless,  opens  glittering  Olympus 
with  his  untroubled  light.  The  heavens  are  no 
longer  shut  out  by  a  green  gloom  and  to  be  sought 
in  the  tangle  of  intertwining  branches;  and  the  free 
air  of  bright  day  does  not  begrudge  to  the  beholder 
a  clear  radiance  and  a  dazzling  sky.  Everything 
moved  me  in  this  charming  scene  by  its  resemblance 
to  the  splendour  of  shining  Burdigala  (Bordeaux), 
my  native  land  :  the  tops  of  the  villas  standing  out 
above  the  overhanging  banks,  the  hills  green  with 
vines,  and  the  pleasant  waters  of  the  Mosella  flowing 
beneath  with  a  muted  murmur. 
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Hail !    river   praised   both    by  fields  and  settlers,  , 
to  which  the  Belgae  ov.'e  ramparts  considered  worthy 
by    the   emperors,    river  whose    slopes   are   planted 
with  vines  yielding  a  perfumed  wine,   most  green 
river,  whose  banks  are  covered  with  grasses !     Navi- 
gable like  the  sea,  your  waters  are  borne  down  like 
a  river's ;  by  your  glassy  deeps  you  resemble  a  lake ; 
by  your  rippling   stream  you  niaj'  be  likened  to   a 
brook;  and  by  the  purity  of  the  drinking-water  you 
supply  you  surpass  the  cold  springs  :  you  alone  have 
all  the  excellencies  of  spring  and  stream  and  river 
and  lake  and  of  the  sea   that  by  its  ebb  and   flow 
makes  a  double  path.     Your  peaceful  waters  glide 
by  without  suffering  either  the  roar  of  the  wind  or 
the  conflict  of  hidden  rocks.     You  are  not  driven  by 
whirling  rapids  to  hasten  your  course;  you  have  no 
islands  rising    in    mid-stream  to  stay  your    waters, 
and,  dividing  them  and  turning  them  aside,  to  rob 
>ou  of  the  honour  of  a  well-deserved  name.     Fate 
has  given  j-ou  two  waterways  :    one  when  you  flow 
down  with  a  favourable  current  and  the  swift  oars 
strike  and  churn  the  waters,  and  the  other  when  the 
sailors,  towing  their  barge  along  the  banks  without 
stopping,  strain  on  the  mast-ropes  with  which  they 
are  yoked.     How  often  have  you  wondered  at  the 
reverse  current  in  your  stream  and  have  thought  its 
natural  flow  perhaps  more  sluggish   because   of   it. 
You  do  not  sow  your  banks  with  marsh-weeds,  nor 
lazily    overflow    yo^r    shores    with    filthy   mire;    a 


THE  MOSELLA  OF  DECIMUS  MAGNUS  AUSONIUS 

man  may  approach  dry-shod   to  the  edge   of  your 

waters 

Go  now  and  inorust  a  smooth  soil  with  Phrygian 
iniay ;  spread  out  a  phiin  of  marble  in  your  panelled 
halls:    for   mv  part,    despising   those  things  which 
wealth  and  fortune  give,  I  will  admire  the  works 
of  nature,  which  are  unheeded  by  spendthrifts,  who, 
rejoicing  in  ruin,  run  riot  into  beggary.     Here  the 
Avet  shores  are  covered  by  firm  sand,  in  winch  the 
feet  leave  no  imprint  of  their  form.     Through  your 
smooth  surface  can  be  seen  your  transparent  depths; 
0  river,  you  have  no  secrets:   as  the  sweet  air  lies 
open  to  the  clear  gaze,  and  the  still  winds  otter  no 
hindrance  to  the  eyes  through  space,  so,  our  sight 
reachino'  into  the  intimate  recesses  of  the  river,  we 
behold, "far  down,  its  sunken  life;  and,  as  the  stream 
flows  gently  by,  the  inmost  heart  of  its  silent  depths 
lies  open  to  us,  and  in  the  blue  light  of  the  clear, 
o-liding  waters  are  revealed  scattered  forms  :    here, 
the  sand   is  furrowed,   ridged   by   the  light  waves; 
and  there,  the  water-grasses  tremble,  bending  over 
the  green  bottom;  underneath   the   waters  of  their 
birth,  the  quivering  plants  sutt'er  the  movement  of 
the  stream;  the  pebbles  shine,  and  then  hide;  and 
the  oravel  serves  as  a  foil  to  the  green  moss.       All 
alon-  the  coast  of  the  Britons  of  Caledonia  may  be 
seen  the    like,    when    the    ebb-tide  leaves  bare   the 
OTeen  seaweed,  the  red  coral  and  the  white  pearls, 
seeds  of  the  shells,  the  delight  of  men;  and  these, 


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beneath  the  rich  waves,  resemble  the  necklaces  of 
our  finery.  In  the  same  way,  beneath  the  happy 
waters  of  the  peaceful  Mosella,  the  weeds  by  their 
dift'erent  colour  show  up  the  pebbles  mingled  with 

them. 

The  slippery  shoals  of  fishes  at  play  among  them- 
selves tire  the  attentive  eyes  with  their  continual 
maze.  But  how  many  species  there  are  swimming 
in  slanting  paths,  and  what  armies  of  them  pass  up 
the  stream,  their  names,  and  the  number  of  the 
children  of  this  great  race,  I  must  not  say  :  he  to 
whom  fell  the  care  of  the  second  lot  and  the 
guardianship  of  the  sea-trident  does  not  allow  it. 

0  Xaiad,  dweller  of  the  river-banks,  describe  to 
me  the  hosts  of  the  scaly  tribes,  speak  to  me  of 
these  hordes  of  fishes  swimming  in  the  liquid  bed 
of  the  blue  river. 

The  scaly  bullhead  shines  in  the  grass-covered 
sand;  its  flesh  is  very  tender,  and  is  closely  set 
with  bones;  it  will  not  keep  more  than  six  hours 
for  the  table.  Then  there  is  the  trout,  wdiose  back 
is  starred  with  purple  spots;  the  loach,  which  has  no 
pointed  spine  to  harm  w^ith,  and  the  light  grayling, 
baffling  the  eyes  with  its  swift  passage.  And  you, 
O  barbel,  after  being  tossed  in  the  narrow  mouths 
of  the  crooked  Saravus  (Saar),  where  its  six  branches 
chafe  against  the  rocky  piles  of  a  bridge,  when  you 
slipped  into  the  more  famous  river,  you  were  freer 
and    enjoyed    a   wide   range  for   your   wanderings 


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You  taste  better  in  your  worst  years ;  and  it  falls  to 
you  of  all  breathing  creatures  to  be  praised  m  age. 
Nor  must  I  pass  vou  over,  0  salmon,  whose  flesh 
i^'leams  scarlet:    the   sudden  lashes    of  your    broad 
tail  are  borne  up  in  ripples  from  the  bottom  to  the 
surface  of  the  stream,  and  your  hidden  strokes  are 
betrayed  in  the  calm  waters.     Your  breast  is  clad 
in  an  armour  of  scales;  your  head  is  smooth :  and 
you  are  a  fit  dish  for  feasts  where  choice  is  dife- 
cult ;  you  will  bear  a  long  wait  without  going  bad ; 
the   spots  on  your  head   mark   you  out :  and  your 
prodigious  belly  shakes  and  quivers  with  the  weight 
of  your  fat  sides.     And  you  who,  in  Illyna,  m  the 
waters  of   the   double-named   Hister   (Danube),    are 
cauo-ht  by  vour  track  of  floating  foam,  0  burbot, 
you  visit  our  river,  so  that  the  wide  Mosella  may 
not  be  defrauded  of  such  a  far-famed  guest.     With 
what  colours  has  nature  painted  you!     Black  spots 
cover  the  upper  part  of  your  back,  each  surrounded 
by  a  yellow  half-circle;  your  slippery  body  is  dyed 
a\lark  blue  colour  :   up  to  the  middle,  you  are  fat; 
thence   to   the  end   of   your  tail,  you   have    a  dry^ 
rough   skin.      Nor   shall    I   be   silent   about    you     O 
per^h,  delight  of  the  table,  fresh-water  fi^^^^  ^^^rthy 
of  the  sea-fish,   alone   fit  to   compare   with   the   red 
mullet ;  for  you  are  not  insipid  to  the  taste  ;  the  parts 
of  your  firm  body  are  in  united  segments  separated 
bv'bones.     This  fish,  too,  with  the  laughable  Latin 
name,    the    Lucius    (pike),    the    pond-dweller    and 
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violent  enemy   of   the    plaintive    frogs,    haunts   the 
pools  dark  with  sedge.     Never  chosen  for  table  use, 
it  is  boiled  in  smoky  cookshops  that  reek  with   its 
fetid  steam.     Who  does  not  know  tlie  green  tench, 
the  comfort  of  the  vulgar,  and  the  bleak,  the  prey 
of  children's  hooks,  and  the  shad,  that  hisses  on  the 
fire,  a  favourite  dish  of  the  people?     And  you  who 
of  two  species  are  neither  and  both,  who  are  not  yet 
salmon  and  no  longer  trout,  and  who,  holding  place 
between  the  two,  0  salmon-trout,  are  caught  at  an 
intermediate  age?       You  also  must  be   mentioned 
among  the    river-armies,    O    gudgeon,   who  are  no 
larger  than  two  thumbless  hands,  but  very  fat  and 
round,   and  bigger  with  your  egg-laden  belly.       0 
gudgeon,  you  liave  counterfeited  the  hanging  beard 
of  the  barbel.     You,  now,  shall  be  celebrated,  great 
silurus,  sea  animal  :  your  body  seems  smeared  with 
Attic  oil ;  I  think  of  you  as  the  dolpliin  of  the  river  : 
so  grandly   do  you   glide  through  the  water,  and, 
in  the  shallows  or  the  river's  weeds,  you  move  with 
difficulty    and    weariness  the    curves    of  your  long 
body.     But  when  you  urge  your  quiet  way  in  the 
stream,  the  green  banks,   the  blue  crowd  of  fishes, 
tlie  clear  waters  Avonder  at  you  :  the  surging  waters 
swell   in   their  bed,   and  the  last  waves  lap  at  the 
river's   edge.     So  in  the  deep    Atlantic  the   whale 
is  sometimes  driven  by  the  wind  or  its  own  motion 
towards  the  shore;   the   sea    is   thrust   aside,   great 
waves  rise  up,  and  the  neighbouring   hills  fear  to 

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seem  smnllev  l.eonuse  of  them.  But  this  oentle 
whale  ot  our  Mosellu,  far  from  brinoing.  rum,  adds 
but  the  more  lionour  to  the  river. 

But  we  have  looked    long'   euout-h    at  the  water- 
ways   and    tlie    plidin-    shoals  of   fishes;    we    have 
counted  their  mauy  bands   long  enough.     Let   tlie 
spectacle   ot  the  vines  show   us  otlier   splendours, 
and  the  gifts  of  Bacchus  entice  our  wandering  eyes 
to  where  a  lofty  peak  in  a  long  raug>'  of  steep  lulls 
and  rocks,  and   sunny   ridges   with   their  folds  and 
windings  mount  up.  clad  with  vines,  into  a  natural 
amphitheatre.     Thus  a    ripe  viiitag^  covers   Mount 
Gaiirus  and  the  Ehodope,  and  the  I'angaeus  gleams 
with   its   grapes;   tiius    the   hill   of   Ismarus    grows 
green  above  the  sea  of  Thrace ;  thus  my  vineyards 
paint  the  golden  Garumna  (Garonne).     Indeed,  the 
margin  of  the  river  is  joined  by  the  green  vine  to 
the  liighest  ridges  ot  the  lulls  tha     ^^i-etc-h  far  as 
the   eve  can  see.       The  labourers   happy   at  then 
work 'and   the    hastening     husbandmen    make    all 
speed,  now  on  the    hiahest    summit,    now   on    the 
roUiu"'  sides  ot   the    hill,   striving    with    clownish 
shouts^        The   traveller  on  the   road  by  the   river- 
side and  the  boatman  on  the  waters  sing  out  alnise 
to  the  backward  vine-dressers  :  the  io<-'<'<- /''^.f.^;".'; 
ino-  woods,  and  the  hollow  river  resoun.l  with  then 

""""isC  are  nion  alone  cleliohted  by  these  scenes : 
Ixerc  I  am  willing-  to  believe,  rural  Satyrs  and 
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Xaiades   with  sea-green  eyes   run   together   on  the 
banks  when  a  glad  wantonness  drives  on  the  goat- 
looted   Tans,  and   they  jump   about  in  the  stream, 
and,    beating    tlie    surface     with     wayward     blows, 
frighten  their  trembling  sisters  beneath  the  waters. 
Offen,  too,  the  river-nymph,  Tanope,  after  having 
stolen  grapes  from  the'hill-slopes,   hides  among  the 
friendlv    (Ireades    from    the   leclierous   Fauns,   the 
village-deities.      And  it  is  said  that,  when  the  golden 
sun    stops    in  middle  course,    the    Satyrs  and   their 
gleaming  sister-partners  perform  choral  dances  by 
Tlie  river  which  tliey  share,  the  violent  heat  aft'ord- 
ing   houis  free  from   the  chance  of    meeting  men. 
Then,    leaping    into  the  river  Avhich  is   theirs,   the 
^'yluphs    play,   and   thrusting   the    Satyrs    beneath 
the  waters,  escape  from  the  hands  of  these  inexpert 
swimmers,    who,    ever   at    fault,   grasp   at    slippery 
limbs,  and,  instead  of  bodies,  clasp  the  clear  waves. 
But     of    these     tilings     witnessed    by    none     and 
unknown  to  sight  of  men  let  me  be  permitted  to 
say  no  more  than   this,    and    let   respect  cover  and 
hide  the  mysteries  entrusted  to  the  river.     But  we 
may  openly  enjoy  the  spectacle  when  the  blue-grey 
liver   reflects    tlie    shadowing    hill,    and   the   waters 
seem  to  put  on  leaves  and  to  be  planted  with  vines. 
What  is  this  colour   of  the  stream   when  Hesperus 
drives  before  him  the  shadows  (jf  evening,  and  fills 
the  Mosella  with  a  green  mountain!     The  hillsides 
all  float  tremulously  in  the  ripples,  and  the  distant 


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vine-branches  quiver,  and  the  orapes  swell  in  the 
clear  waters.  The  boatman,  the  sport  of  an  illusion, 
counts  the  green  vine-stems :  the  boatman  who. 
in  his  skift*  hollowed  from  the  trunk  ot  a  tree,  floats 
in  mid-stream  where  the  image  of  the  hill  mingles 
with  the  river  and  the  river  joins  the  boundaries 
of  the  shades. 

How  pleasant,  too,  is  the  sight  of  the  games  when 
the  oar-driven  boats  race  one  another  in  the  middle 
of   the   river,  making   many  curves,  and  skimming 
the  vegetation  growing  up  again  on  the  green  banks 
in  the  mown  meadows !     The  nimble  masters  dance 
on  bow  and  stern;  and,  while  you  watch  these  bands 
of  young  men  at  play  on  the  river,  the  day  passes; 
yoii  prefer  their  games  to  your  more  serious  affairs ; 
and  a  new  pleasure  drives   away  old  cares.        On 
games  such  as  these  in  the  sea  of  Cumae,  Bacchus, 
wandering  along   the  vineclad  tops  of   sulphureous 
Gaurus    or    through      the     vineyards     of     smoking 
Vesuvius,  looks  down,  when  Venus,  overjoyed  with 
the  triumphs  of  Augustus  at  Actium,  has  ordered 
the  wanton  Cupids  to  mimic  the  fierce  battles  which 
the  fleets  of  the  Nile  and  the  liatin  triremes  waged 
under  the    walls    of    Leucas,   dedicated   to   Apollo. 
Such,   too,    are    the   games  in    which  the  boats    of 
Euboea     repeat     on     the     roaring      Avernus      the 
manoeuvres  that    led  to  the    defeat  of  Pompey    oft 
Mvlas:  the  shocks  and  fighting  of  these  ships  being 
a  harmless  jest,  an  imitation  battle  held  in  sight  of 
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Sicilian  Pelorus,  and  reflected  as  a  green  image  in 
the  blue  sea.     X  like  joyous  aspect  is  given  to  these 
lively  young  men  by  their  youth,  the  river  and  the 
painted  prows  of  their  boats.     When  the  sun,  high 
overhead,  bathes   the  sailors  with  light  and  heat, 
he   reproduces  their  forms  in   the   crystal    depths, 
showino'    a    foreshortened    image    of    their    figures 
upside ''down.     And  as  their  quick  movements  are 
multiplied  right  and  left,  as  in  the  change  of  oars 
thev  take  their  turns  at  the  work,  the  stream  throws 
back  the  wet   image   of   other  sailors.     The   young 
boatmen  take  pleasure  in  their  reflexion,  and  admire 
these  deceitful  shapes  formed  in  the  river.     In  the 
same   wav,   when  a    foster-mother    first  brings  her 
dear  nursling  to  the  dazzling  splendour  of   a  far- 
shining  mirror,    in   which   she  may   be  shown  her 
neatlv  arranged  hair,  the  laughing  child  enjoys  the 
new  oame,  and  thinks  she  is  looking  at  the  likeness 
of  a  "sister ;  she  kisses  the  glittering,  unresponsive 
metal,  or  attempts  to  touch  the  pms  she  sees  fixed; 
or  strives  to  pull  the  curls  dangling  over  the  fore- 
head  of  her  image.       Thus    the    young    boatnien, 
watching  the   play   of  their  reflexions    enjoy   these 
shapes  that  hover  between  the  true  and  the  talse 

But  whpre  the  bank  permits  of  easy  access  to  the 
river,  a  crowd  of  destructive  peop  e  seeks  m  tiie 
depths  the  fishes,  ill-defended,  alas!  m  their  watery 
hiding-places.  One,  dragging  his  dripping  nets  far 
off  in  mid-stream,  sweeps   tbe  shoals  of  fishes  into 


THE  MOSELLA  OF  DECIMUS  MAGNUS  AUSONIUS 

Lis  knotted  toils.     Another    where  ^j^^/iver  glides 
by  in  quiet  volume,  controls  net^s  that   float   with 
cork  markers.     Another  still,  having  cast  his  hooks 
:    ir  "d  with  deadly  bait    leans  from  the  rocks  over 
the  w'lters    and  watches  the  arching  curve  ot  the  end 
o     his   flexible  rod.        Immediately  the  wandering 
crowd  of  fishes,  unconscious  of  snares,  has  attacked 
he  hooks  with  gaping  jaws,    the    gasping     hrc>ats 
feel  deep  down  too  late  the  wound  from  the  hidden 
poinf.     Bv  their  struggles  the  fishes  are  betrayed ; 
?nd  the  shaking  rod  answers  to  the  sharp  ierks  of 
the  auivering  line.      Without  delay  the   dexterous 
bov  snTtche^  up  his  rod  and  strikes;  his  prey  whistles 
Tan  Clique  curve  through  the  air    ^^-^  ^^^^^ 
to   the  shock  as  the   breeze  resounds  and  the  \vina 
Ms!es\S    li^  air  when  whips  are  cracked. 

The  dank  bootv  writhes  on  the  dry  rocks,  earing 
the  dJ^^lv  beams  of  the  light  of  day.  In  its  river- 
he  fish  preserved  its  strength  ;  but  panting  m  our 
I?r  it  consumes  its  life  HnReringly  l^^^^J^^^ 
body  is  now  shaken  only  by  nerveless  tlnobs,  the 
linZ  tail  -ives  its  last  quivers;  the  .laws  remain 
ope    •   and^he    gills,    breathing    out    their    dying 

Kii  yield  airthe  air  they  i^^^-l^J/"  ^^^^^ 
Thus  too,  when  the  air  plays  on  the  fiie  in  the 
4i  tl  V  the  woollen  valve  working  m  the  cayitv  of 
e  Wchen  bellows  receives  f  "^^ -P^^^f  ^^^  7 
alternately  opening  and  ^b^^t^^^^^'^^^^^^  fhTmni 
However,  T  have  seen  fishes  quivering  on  the  point 

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of  death  collect  their  strength,    and,    leaping    sud- 
denly into  the  air,  plunge  headlong  into  the  river 
beneath,  masters  once  more  of  the  waters  they  had 
thought  to  have  lost  for  ever.     And  the  unthinking 
bov,  enraged  at  this  loss,  rushes    down    from    the 
rocks,   and  foolishly    tries    to    recapture    them    by 
swimming  after  them.     Thus  Glaucus  of  Anthedon 
a  fisher  in  the  seas  of  Boeotia,  after  having  tasted 
the  deadly  grasses  of  Circe,  took  of  the  herbs  eaten 
by  dying' fishes,  and,  jumping  into  the  Carpathian 
Sea,^becanie   a  new   dweller  therein.      He  who  was 
mio'htv  with  hook  and  net,  the  explorer  of  the  secret 
pla'ces\)f  Nereus,  he  who  used  to  sweep  the  waters 
of  the  sea-goddess,   Tethys,  now  floated  among  the 
bands  of  fishes  which  were  once  his  prey. 

Such  are  the  scenes  along  the  blue  course  of  the 
Mosella  looked  down  upon  by  the  villas  that  cling 
to  the  summits  of  the  rocks  overhanging  the  wander- 
ino-  river,  which  passes  between  them  with  its  wind- 
ing curves  and  separates  them ;  on  both  sides  country 
houses  adorn  the  banks.  .  p 

Who  now  admires  the  sea  of  Sestos,  the  waters  ot 
Helle,  daughter  of  Xephele,  or  the  strait  of  tlie 
youth  of  Abvdos?  AVho  admires  that  sea  (the  Bos- 
phorus)  covered  with  a  bridge  of  boats  the  work  ot 
a  great  king  (Darius),  from  the  Chalcedonian  shore 
where  the  waters  of  a  strait  prevent  the  lands  ot 
Europe  and  of  Asia  from  coming  together?  Here  are 
no   wild  furies  of  the   sea,  no  cruel  battles   ot   the 


THE  MOSELLA  OB^  DECIMUS  MAGNUS  AUSOXIUS 

winds.  Here  vou  may  carry  on  speech  from  one 
bank  to  the  other,  and,  speaking  in  turns,  exchange 
conversation.  Tliese  pleasant  shores  mino-le  the 
greeting  oi"  voices,  voices  and  almost  liands:  the 
words  resounding  on  both  sides  are  repeated  by 
the  echoes  that  meet  in  the  middle  of  the  river. 

In  describing  these  innumerable   splendours  and 
scenes,    who    cTui    do    justice    to    the    architectural 
beauties   of  each   of    these    estates?       The    winged 
Cretan,    Daedalus,    the    builder    of    the    temple    at 
Cumae,  who  was  overcome  by  a  father's  sorrow  when 
trying  to  work  in  gold  the  fall  of  Icarus,  would  not 
despise  these  works;  nor  the  Athenian,  Philo ;   nor 
he   who,  praised  by   the  enemy   themselves  (Archi- 
medes), protracted' the  noble  struggles  of  the  Syra- 
cusan  war.      Perhaps   these  masterpieces  of  human 
labour  were  designed  by  the  seven   architects  cele- 
brated   in   the  tenth    volume    of    Yarro ;    here    has 
flourished  the  art  of  famous    :Metagenis,    and    has 
been  seen  the   hand  of    F.phesus,   and  Ictinus,  who 
placed  in  the  citadel   of    Minerva    an   owl    smeared 
with  a  magic  dve,  which  attracts  all  kinds  of  birds 
and  kills  them' with   a  look.       Here,   perhaps,  has 
been   the  architect  of  the  palace  of  the  Ptolemaei. 
Hinochares,  whose  four  walls,  rising  to  their  pointed 
summit,  form  a  pyramid  consuming  its  own  shadow. 
He,  having  once  been  ordered  to  commemorate  the 
bonds  of  an  incestuous  love,   suspended  the  image 
of  Arsinoe  in  air  in  the  temple  at  Pharos.     For  the 
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influence  of  a  blue  loadstone  in  the  arch  of  the  roof, 
attracting  the   young  woman  by  means  of  an  iron 
hair,  lifted  herefrom  the  ground. 
•     It  is  worthv  of  belief  that  these  artists  or  their 
equals  traced  out  on  the  soil  of  the  Belgae  the  plan 
of   these   houses,  and   built   these  villas,  the  orna- 
ments of  the  river.     One  of  them  is  high  up  on  a 
mass  of  rocks;  another  is  placed  on  a  jutting  point 
of  the  bank;  a  third  is  withdrawn,  and  claims  as 
its  own  a  small  bay  of  the  river.     Still  another,  on 
a  hill  overlooking  a  long  stretch   of  the  river,  has 
an  uninterrupted  view  over  the  cultivated  heids  and 
the  wild  heaths,  and  the  happy  man  who  from  this 
house   contemplates   the  country  enjoys   it  as  i*  .J^ 
were  his  own.     Moreover,   the  house  which  is  built 
on  a  low-lving  soil  in  meadows   overflowed   by  the 
river  has  a'  compensation  for  the  natural  advantages 
of  the  high  hill   in   the  lofty  roof  which  it  thrusts 
threateninglv    into  the  air,   displaying  pro^dly  V^ 
hio-h  tower,  like  Pharos  in  the  country  of  Memphis 
To'' this  other  house  belongs   the   right  to  take  all 
fish  caught  in  the  weirs  between   the  rocks,  whose 
cultivated  plateaux  lie  open  to  the   sun      Another 
villa,  placed  on  the  summits  of  the  hills,  beholds 
onlv  through  a  thick  mist  the  river  flowing  below. 
Sh'ill   I   recall   all  those  mansions  standing  m  the 
green  meadows,  all  those    roofs    resting    on    innu- 
merable columns?     Or  the  baths  built  on  the  river- 
bonk.  which  steam  when  Vulcan,  deep  down  m  their 

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burnino-  bowels,  breathes  tlie  rolling  flames  into  the 
channels  of  the  white-washed  walls,,  and  collects  the 
imprisoned  vapour  to  belch  it  forth  ?  I  have  seen 
])athers,  wearied  with  much  sweating  in  the  bath, 
disdain  the  basins  and  the  cool  tanks  to  enjoy  the 
running  water,  and,  soon  refreshed  by  the  river, 
beat  the  cold  waves  in  the  deliglit  of  swimming. 
If  a  stranger  were  to  come  here  from  the  Cumaean 
coast,  he  would  believe  that  the  country  had  been 
endowed  with  a  smaller  l^aiae,  so  great  is  its  beauty 
and  attractive  its  charm;  and  the  pleasure  it  gives 
leads  to  no  extravagance. 

But  when  shall  I  cease  to  sing  of  your  blue-grey 
waters,  or  to  recall,  O  Mosella,  that  you  are  com- 
parable to  the  sea,  since  innumerable  rivers  flow 
into  you  by  ditterent  mouths  all  along  your  coursed 
Although  "they  could  turn  aside,  yet  they  hurry  to 
lose  their  name  in  you.  For  the  Sura  (Sauer), 
swollen  by  the  Promea  (Pruem)  and  the  Xemesa 
(Xims),  not  unworthily  liastens  to  pour  its  waters 
into  yours;  the  Sura,  Vhich  thus  presents  to  you 
the  rivers  it  has  intercepted,  deems  it  a  nobler  thing 
to  be  mingled  with  you  than  to  find  its  way  to 
Father  Ocean  by  a  niouth  of  its  own  which  none 
would  know.  The  rapid  Celbis  (Kyll)  and  the 
Erubris  (Ruwer),  celebrated  for  its  marble,  press 
on  to  be  the  first  to  touch  you  with  their  attendant 
waters ;  the  Celbis  is  renowned  for  its  fishes ;  and 
the   other   river,    w^hich  twists  the   millstones  in   a 

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headlong  whirl,  and  drags  the  whirring  saws  through 
the  smooth   marble,   hears   a   perpetual    noise   from 
both  its  banks.      I    pass    over    the    lit  le    Lesura 
(Lieser)  and  the  slight  Drahonus  (Ihron) ;  nor  shall 
I  notice  the  miserable  Salmona  (Salm) ;  the  Saravus 
(Saar),  a   navigable  river  with  a   sonorous  mass  ot 
water,    has  long  been   calling    to    me   with    all   its 
charms.     This  river  leads   its  waters  afar  until   it 
pours   them  wearilv  into   the   Mosella  beneath  the 
walls  of  one  of  the  palaces  of  Augustus.     ISot  less 
important    is    the    happy    Alisontm    (Elz),    which, 
o-lidino-  silentlv   between   fat  meadows,   laps  at  its 
fertile'^ banks.  ^  A  thousand   others,  each  according 
to  its  haste,  prove  their  desire    to    become    yours. 
Such    are     the    character    and    ambition     ot    these 
hurrving  waters.     If,   divine   Mosella,    Smyrna   or 
renowned    Mantua   had    given   you   your   poet,    the 
Simois,    which   was  celebrated  on  the  Ilion  shores, 
would  give  wav  to  vou,  and  Tiber  would  not  dare 
to  prefer  its  honours    to    yours.       Forgive    me,    1 ) 
powerful  Rome!     Let  envy,    I    pray     be    hounded 
hence!     And  Xemesis,    O    name    unknown    to    the 
Latin  tongue,  protect  the  present  seat  of  the  Empire 

and  Eome,  its  mother!  i      ^,,  t 

Hail  Mosella,  great  mother  of  harvests  and  men! 
ISToble  princes,  voung  men  trained  m  war  and  an 
eloquence  rivalling  that  of  the  orators  of  Lfium 
are  vour  glories.  Moreover,  nature  has  granted  to 
your  children  good  manners,   a   happy   wit,   and   a 


THE  MOSELLA  OF  DECIMUS  MAGNUS  AUSONIUS 

smiling  brow.  Eome  is  not  alone  in  its  display  of 
ancient  Catos;  and  Aristides,  the  honour  of  old 
Athens,  is  not  the  only  man  reputed  for  his  observ- 
ance of  justice  and  equity. 

But  why  do   I,  like   one  who,    having  given  the 
rein  to  his  horses,   is  carried  too  far,  weaken  your 
praise  bv  excess,  overcome  by  my  affection  for  you  ? 
Lay  down  the  Ivre,  0  Muse;  its  strings  are  sounding 
with  the  end  of  my  song.     A  time  will  come  when 
I  shall  soothe  mv  cares  in    the    studies    of    an    in- 
glorious leisure,   and  shall  cherish  the  sunny  hours 
of  my  decay :    then   I  shall  gain   honour  from  the 
nobility  of  ^this  subject,    singing   the  deeds  of   the 
Belgae,  man  by   man,    and  their   customs,   handed 
down  from  father  to  son,   which   are  their  especial 
glory.     The  Pierian  maids  will  weave  me  pleasant 
poems  of  fine  thread;  they  will  cross  the  weft  with 
a  daintv   warp;   purple,  too,   will   be  given  to  our 
spindles\     Who,  then,  will  be  left  unsung?     I  will 
commemorate     the     peaceful      husbandmen,      those 
learned  in  law,  the  eloquent  pleaders,  eminent  pro- 
tectors of  defendants;  those  whom  the  Curia  of  the 
toAvns  has  seen,  as  the  supreme  leaders  of  their  fellow- 
citizens,   forming  their    own    Senate;    those    whose 
eloquence,  renowned  in  the  schools  for  young  men 
who  wear  the  praetexta,  has  raised  them  to  the  fame 
of  old  Quintilian;  those  who  have  administered  their 
own  towns,  and  have  adorned  a  bench  unsullied  with 
blood  and  cruel  axes;  those  who,  as  lieutenants  of 
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the  prefects,  have  governed  the  peoples  of  Italy  and 
the  Northern  Britons;  and,  finally,  that  man  who 
administered  Eome,  the  capital  of  the  world  its 
people  and  its  senators.  Although  equal  to  the  first, 
he  was  not  first  in  name ;  but  Fortune  at  length 
hastens  to  repair  her  error,  and,  making  good  the 
rewards  he  has  scarcely  tasted,  she  will  raise  him 
to  the  summit  of  true  honour,  which  will  be  passed 
on  to  his  noble  descendants.  But  now  let  the  work- 
already  begun  be  finished,  and  the  praise  of  the  men 
deferred ;  let  us  sing  the  fertile  river  and  its  happy 
course  through  the  green  countryside ;  let  us  conse- 
crate it  to  the  waters  of  the  Rhine. 

Open  now,  O   Rhine,   your  blue  folds  and   your 
brio-ht  green  robe;   measure  a   space  large  enough 
for'this  new  river,  which  will  fill  jou  with  its  sis- 
terly waters.     Nor  are  its  waters  its  only  gitt,  tor 
it  has  passed  by  the  walls  of;  the  city  of  Augustus 
(Treves)    and  has  seen  the  .lomt  triumphs  of  lather 
and  son,  after  they  had   beaten  the  enemy  on  the 
Nicer  (Neckar),  at  Lupodunum,  and  at  the  Mister  s 
source,^  which  is  unknown  to  the  annals  of  Latium. 
The  letter    crowned   with   laurels   announcing    the 
successful    end    of   the    war   has    just    arrived ;   the 
Mosella  will  bring  you  others  and  sti  1  others.     Con- 
tinue now    together,    and    push  back  the   dark    sea 
with  your  double  current.     O  most  lovely  Rhine,  do 
not  fear  that  you  will  seem  overshadowed,     lour 
ouest  should  awaken  no  jealousy.     0  mistress  ot  an 
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eternal  name,  adopt  your  sister;  your  renown  is 
secure.  Rich  in  waters,  rich  in  Xymplis,  your  bed. 
prodi<?al  to  both  ot  you,  will  enlarge,  separating- 
vour  two  banks  more  and  more,  and,  finally,  will 
pour  your  common  stream  by  different  mouths  into 
the  sea.  The  Franci,  the  Chamaves,  the  (Termani 
will  tremble  at  your  joint  forces:  you  will  then, 
indeed,  be  looked  upon  as  the  true  barrier  ot  the 
Empire.  Your  tributary,  beinj?  so  ffreat,  will  cause 
vou  to  be  given  a  name  which  shows  that  you  are 
double,  and,  although  you  flow  single  from  your 
source,  vou  will  be  called  two-horned. 

These\are  the  themes  which  I,  who  spring  from 
the  race  of  Yivisci,  who  am  known  to  the  Belgae 
by  old  ties  of  hospitality,  who  have  a  Latin  name, 
Ausonius,  and  whose  country  and  home  lie  between 
the  extremity  of  Gaul  and  the  lofty  Pyrenees,  where 
happy  Aquitania  softens  primitive  manners—these 
are  the  themes  which  I  dare  to  sing  on  my  feeble 
lyre.  May  it  be  lawful  for  me  to  have  approached 
this  holy^river  with  my  poor  offering  of  verse.  I 
do  not  seek  fame :  I  ask  forgiveness.  There  are 
many,  most  gracious  river,  who  are  wont  to  draw 
on  tiie  sacred  streams  of  Aonia  and  to  dram  all  the 
Ao«anippe  for  you.  But,  for  my  part,  when  the 
Auo-usti,  father  and  son,  my  most  anxious  care 
ha\"e  dismissed  me,  after  having  decorated  me  with 
the  Italian  fasces  and  the  curule  honour  in  token  ot 
the  termination  of  my  long  service  as  tutor,  I  will 
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return  to  Burdigala,  my  country  and  the  retreat 
of  my  old  age,  and,  in  so  far  as  my  poetic  vein  will 
permit,  I  will  pursue  more  amply  the  praise  of  this 
northern  river.  I  will  mention  those  towns  beneath 
which  glides  your  silent  stream,  and  the  fortresses 
which  conteniplate  you  from  their  ancient  walls; 
I  will  mention  those  strongholds  built  as  a  protec- 
tion against  dangers,  which  no  longer  serve  as 
entrenched  camps  but  as  granaries  for  the  Belgae; 
1  will  mention  the  happy  husbandmen  on  both  sides 
of  the  river;  and  you,  between  the  lands  ploughed 
by  men  and  oxen,  lapping  at  the  banks,  and  divid- 
ing the  fat  tilths.  The  Liger  (Loire)  cannot  esteem 
itself  greater  than  you,  nor  the  swift  Axona  (Aisne), 
nor  the  Matrona  (Marne),  which  is  set  between  the 
Gauls  and  the  Belgae  as  a  boundary,  nor  the  Caran- 
tonus  itself  (Charente),  which  flows  back  with  the 
tide  from  Santones  fSaintonge).  You  also  must 
give  way,  0  Duranius  (Dordogne),  who  roll  down 
from  a  frozen  mountain.  And  Gaul  will  place  the 
gold-bearing  Tarnis  (Tarn)  after  you,  0  Mosella  ; 
and  that  mad  river  rushing  over  rocks  which  it 
rolls  far  out,  the  Aturrus  (Adour)  of  the  Tarbelli, 
will  not  enter  the  dark  sea  without  having  wor- 
shipped the  divinity  of  the  Mosella,  its  sovereign- 

mistress. 

0  horned  Mosella,  you  who  should  be  praised  in 
foreign  countries,  and  not  only  in  those  places 
where,  from  your  lofty  source,  you  thrust  forth  the 

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golden  splendour  of  your  bull's  head ;  or  where  you 
pursue  tranquilly  your  winding  course  through  the 
fields;  or  where  your  mouth  is,  in  the  ports  of  Ger- 
mania  :  if  any  merit  will  inspire  my  feeble  Muse, 
if  anyone  deem  my  verses  worthy  to  waste  his  leisure 
on,  vou  will  live^in  the  mouths  of  men,  and  will 
be  eiierished  tor  my  fortunate  song.  You  will  be 
known  to  the  springs  and  the  pools  of  running  water, 
and  the  blue  rivers,  and  the  old  sacred  groves, 
the  pride  of  the  countryside.  You  will  be  wor- 
shipped by  the  Druna  (Drome)  and  the  Druentia 
(Durance)  with  its  changing  course,  and  the  Alpine 
rivers,  and  the  Ehodanus  (Ehone),  which  flows 
through  a  double  town  and  gives  its  name  to  its 
right  bank.  I  will  praise  you  to  the  bkie  ponds  and 
to  the  rivers  which  roar  with  a  great  noise;  I  will 
praise  you  to  the  sea-like  Garumna. 


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